Metal door



Dec. l 1923. 1,477,213

' A. J. ENGMAN IETAL DOOR rind lay""24. 1922 man, IN VEN TOR.

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A TTORNEY Patented Dec. ll, 1923. n

UNITED sire ARTHUR J. ENG-MAN, 0F CANTON, (1R10.

METAL Doon.

Application filed May 24,

ToaZZ 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR J. ENGMAN, a citizen of the United States, residingat- Canton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Met-al Door, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to metal doors and has for its object the provision of'an improved means of securing the'backing sheet or shell which holds the silencer in position, at the samev time allowing a simple yet rigid construction for locking the panel moulding in place.

Another object is to greatly simplify the construction of this class of articles, thereby effecting a marked saving in the cost of labor for assembling and material.

In the drawings, in which corresponding numerals indicate similar parts; y

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary view of a pore tion of a door showing a. corner of a panel with the panel mouldin and portions of the top rail and one of t e side stiles.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1 looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary perspective of portions of the panel, panel moulding, stile, binder moulding, shell and silencer, spaced apart.

At l is indicated a vertical side rail or stile of a door. The ends of the sheet forming the stile are bent as shown at 2, forming oppositely arranged, in-turned iianges 3. Adjacent each of the fianges, there is secured within the stile a binder moulding 4, the said moulding contacting for a distance with its respective inner side of the stile as at 5 and being spot welded to the said stile at said place of contact. At a point toward the outer end of the stile each binder moulding is bent inwardly as at 6 and then bent again toward the said outer end of thestile, thus forming a ange 7 which is spaced from the side of the stile and parallel therewith. The fiber sheeting, paper or other material forming the silencer 8, lies against the inner side of the stile and is held in position by the shell 9. As clearly seen in Fig. 2, the flanges 7 are spaced the exact distance from their respective sides of the stile to receive the silencers 8 and shell 9 and hold them firmly against the said stile.

1922, serial No. 563,227.

At the end of the portion 5 opposite the flange 6, each of the binders is bent inward-l ly as at 10, forward as at 11, then outwardly and parallel with the portion 10, as at 12 and `then again forwardlyas at 18. The portions 13 are each parallel with their re-` spective sides of lthe stile and are spaced slightly therefrom.- The said portions also terminate at a point spaced slightly from the flanges 3 at the edges of the sheet formino the stile. It is thus seen by reference totFigs. 2 and 3 that an open ended channel is formed between each of the binders and its respective side'of the stile, the'said channel terminating in a groove 14 formed by the portions 10, 11 and 12.

rlphe panel moulding 15 has the usualcen-`` tral groove 16 to receive the panel 17, the extremities 18 of the said moulding lying within the open ended channels above referred to "and terminating in in-turned flanges 19 which slide into the grooves 14: and thus lock` the moulding in place.

From the foregoing it will be obvious that the labor involved in assembling my door -v is reduced to minimum. The binders 4 are first spot welded to the stile at the places indicated at 5 and thek silencers `8 and shell 9 slid into,l place. The ends of the panel moulding are then slid into position be-v tween their respective sides of the stile and the opposite ends of the binders. It is also 'i obvious that the foregoing construction will apply with equal advantage to the assenr bling of the top,`bottom and middle rails of the door. 'i

I claim is: l. f

. 1. In a metal door, a kbinder secured at e.

Having now described my invention, whatk I its central portion to the stile of said door,

the. edgesk of said binder being .spaced from said stile, a' panel moulding havin its edge inserted in the space at one end of said binder and a silencer and shell therefor hav-l ing their edges inserted in the space at the g i opposite edge of'said binder and being secured inposition by said binder. n 2. In almetal door, a binder secured at its central portionltothe stile or rail of said door, one edge of said binder spaced from the face kof said stile, a silencer` and shell therefor havingl their edges inbeing u l serted between the binder and stile, and a panel moulding, .the opposite edge of said binder securing one portion of the panel said iii-turned portion, a Silencer and a ShellA moulding. therefor, one edge of said silencer and shell 3. In a metal door, a binder spot Welded lying between said flange and stile and be- 10 at its central portion to the vstile of said ivngysecured in position sitidange. 5 door, an irl-turned portion formed on said In testimony that I ei'airn the above I binder at one side of'said spot Welded porhave hereunto subscribed m naine.

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